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simple fly
this was on col dan's site..pisses me off
To: Ed Gentry, thefirstcav@ yahoo.com, or is it Larry Gentry?
VSO's like you give veteran advocacy a bad name….Thank you Dr Gentry for your medical diagnosis
You know so much more than the thousands of Dr's who have studied PTSD for years.
You surely don't work for the VA? Although you sound like you do. You have anger issues, recommend
You seek treatment for your PTSD
See Gentry's remarks below
"None of these men were depressed, sad
or disturbed in Vietnam. Yet today they are either getting PTSD money
or applying for it. These men are criminals. I am glad that my
Congressional testimony helped get the VA to require a lot more
evidence before they approve a PTSD claim. I am just waiting for the
day real soon when the FBI begins investigating fraudulent PTSD claimants."
From: Ed Gentry
To: disabled-veterans@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:40 PM
Subject: [disabled-veterans] Re: A nutty idea: Give the PH medal for wartime disability
--- In disabled-veterans@ yahoogroups. com, "Allan Pederson"
<allanp@...> wrote: Ed: You are wrong! PTSD is definitely a mental
disorder, but these men/women are not nuts! I pity the Veterans who
have to work with you as a VA Service Officer. Allan
People who want others to believe that they are perpetually mentally
ill are nuts.
People who enjoy spending decades living in the past are nuts.
People who love sympathy, enjoy having their family members feel sorry
for them, use their PTSD to avoid working and responsibility, are nuts.
People who were having a great time in Vietnam, getting laid, doing
drugs, popping caps and rabble-rousing, only to claim 20-30 years
later that all of that fun is now depressing to them: are nuts. I know
men today who were in my unit. None of these men were depressed, sad
or disturbed in Vietnam. Yet today they are either getting PTSD money
or applying for it. These men are criminals. I am glad that my
Congressional testimony helped get the VA to require a lot more
evidence before they approve a PTSD claim. I am just waiting for the
day real soon when the FBI begins investigating fraudulent PTSD claimants.
As for pity, I tell the vets I work with not to seek pity but to get
their act together and become men again. Vietnam, Iraq and war are too
small and too brief a part of a soldier's life to make it his entire
life. Pitying is for punks.
American soldiers and American veterans are supposed to be strong,
heroic, decent and solid. They are supposed to be men, not girly-men.
They are not supposed to be whiny sissies and putrid little punks
begging for sympathy and welfare, which is was PTSD checks are.
__._
Allan, I agree with Ed. Millions upon millions of dollars are sucked
out of the VA budget every year by a bunch of lazy guys who have
perfectly full and healthy bodies. Their only complaint is that they
can't work, sleep, eat, xxxx or party because they keep remembering
about an experience they had over thirty years ago in Vietnam.
I have a question for you, Allan. Do you think the VA would be able to
give more and better care to wounded vets with physical disabilities
and missing body parts if the lazy PTSD welfare kings would get jobs
and stop leeching off the VA's budget?
Or how about this question: Do you think wounded and injured vets
wouldn't have to wait so long for appointments if the doctors and
staff didn't have to spend so much time with crybabies and sissies
who's only complaints are bad memories they don't want to forget if
they can get paid with PTSD to keep those memories?
Allan, the PTSD leeches have been a terrible drain on the VA system.
They eat up money, time, services and resources. These men with full
and healthy bodies are the scum who rob much-needed care from men who
were physically injured or wounded. And what makes these scumbags even
worse is that they not only don't give a damn about stealing time,
money and care from men like you, they also want a xxxxxxx medal for
being looney!!!!
Allan, your biggest enemy in Vietnam may have been Charlie. But the
guys that are making it harder for the truly disabled in the VA system
are the xxxxxxx PTSD punks who are getting attention and money because
being physically healthy they can cry and whine the loudest!
Allan, you need to take off those rose colored glasses you're wearing
and start seeing reality. Ed is right about PTSD being nothing more
than welfare for assholes who don't want to get jobs and work like
honest people.
,_.___
Les(in MN
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